archeress

English

an archeress

WOTD – 5 December 2012    

Etymology

archer +‎ -ess

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɑːtʃəɹɪs/

Noun

archeress (plural archeresses)

1. A female archer.
   • 1878, John Berwick Harwood, Helena, lady Harrogate, page 11:

     […] looking very much as they must have looked when Queen Elizabeth deigned to show her skill as an archeress, to the detriment of the dappled deer in the wide park beyond.

   • 1882, Catherine Parr Traill, Lost in the Backwoods:

     Catharine was a tolerable archeress with the long-bow, and the hut was now seldom without game of one kind or other.

Translations

a female archer

• Armenian: նետաձգուհի (hy) (netajguhi) 
• Finnish: jousiampujatar (fi)
• French: archère (fr) f
• German: Bogenschützin (de) f

• Macedonian: стрелачка (mk) (strélačka) f
• Russian: лучница (ru) (lúčnica) f 
• Spanish: arquera (es) f